mounting remote tape

[Marco_67]

Is it possible to mount (as NFS) a remote tape (physically on another system) and run make_recovery on that tape ?

Thank you
/Marc

[TOMAS BERNABEU]

I think that no . But you can create a ignite server in the remote machine, and from this to make this ignite backup.this is a better solution.

Tom

[Massimo Bianchi]

The make recovery uses a local tape, so i'm afraid that you can't.

You can use a make_net_recovery, instead, if you have enough space.

Massimo

[Bernhard Mueller]

Marc,

that is not possible. But you may consider creating an Ignite server image of your machine on any machine where you have a few GB available and create an Ignite tape from it.

There is documentation how to do this.

http://www.software.hp.com/products/IUX/index.html

Regards,
Bernhard

[Leif Halvarsson_2]

Hi,
It is not possible to "mount" a tape. Even if it should be possible to use a remote tape for creating an archive, it is not possible to restore from a remote tape. If you want to do remote create/restores you should use an Ignite server (make_net_recovery).

[Bernhard Mueller]

Here is the doc as an attachment...

Regards,
Bernhard

[Mark Grant]

Actually, in the old days, some people used to create a file system on a tape. I imagine you still can and in this case, you probably could remote mount it using NFS. I don't think it'll be very good for the hardware or indeed your sanity if you tried this with modern systems though. Good for a laugh I suppose.

Also there used to be an alternative to NFS called RFS which many people considered superior to NFS and this, if memory serves me correctly, allowed for remote mounting of devices. If you can find a version of RFS somewhere in some dark corner of the net, you might be set.

However, as other people have mentioned above, you really don't need to do this.

[Caesar_3]

Hello!

There is no way to mount a tape
and ofcoure you could mount tape via network

Caesar

[A. Clay Stephenson]

This was one of the features of the old System V RFS as opposed to NFS. RFS would allow remote devices but alas NFS does not. The good news is that some commands (e.g. fbackup/frecover) allow you to access drives on a remote machine. You can also tar or cpio and pipe that to remsh to dd to a drive on a remote machine.